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Creator and chief editor of A Woman's Write, Barbara Bamberger Scott grew up in North Carolina. In 1980 she went overseas, working for Quakers and Mennonites in Botswana, Kenya and the Dominican Republic. She homesteaded in Spain and worked in a B&B in London, returning to America in 1994, having learned to speak Spanish, play the fiddle, and live off-the-grid. In addition to her independent writing projects, she and husband Donnie "Dobro" Scott have co-authored songs and one book and enjoy in-town homesteading in Mount Airy, NC (aka Mayberry), where Barbara works for a not-for-profit jobs program.

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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
by Mark Kurlansky
(4/5/2017)
Kurlansky skillfully combines these disparate aspects, examining them in the hindsight of history and in the light of the current regime, skirting speculation about the changes that must be waiting in the wings since the death of Fidel late last year. He gives us Havana as a city to love, a city to invest our best hopes in as changes on the diplomatic front are causing a warming trend in our relations with our southeastern island neighbor.
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Dadland
by Keggie Carew
(3/8/2017)
In her notable debut, Keggie Carew examines the life of her father Tom, a decorated war hero whose multitude of talents did not include the skills needed to handle civilian life or keep a family together. Yet even in his waning years, his personal magnetism impelled his daughter to explain and affirm him. Dadland is the satisfying story of an unusual father—daring in war, inept in peace, but even in the fog of dementia, indisputably charming—told by an at times befuddled and frustrated bu
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Homesick for Another World: Stories
by Ottessa Moshfegh
(1/18/2017)
The book comprises fourteen tales, generally dark, each unique in its expression of mute angst; sexual longings, fulfilled or repressed; human contacts tentatively made and frustratingly frayed. Yet each offers what this new writer's growing readership has come to expect: sudden splashes of outré humor in the midst of squalid, fetid realities.

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